ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,854, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Broken wire detection within a security surveillance network" was invented by Zhen Yu (Fairport, N.Y.) and Michael Travers (Penfield, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods directed to electronic communications system expander device. The device includes a differential receiver, an electronic processor, and a broken wire detection circuit including a load resistor selectively connectable to an input of the detection circuit, the circuit being communicatively coupled at the input to a differential communications bus and communicatively co...